Importance of Learning English in our life!

Hi, I liked your frank and candid comments. At the outset, I would like to tell you that you are not alone – 90% of the Indians are like that. But in one aspect, you are unique. 90% of the Indians believe that their English is good, you believe that your English needs improvement. Average Indians never try to enhance their English and commit a career suicide. As someone said, English is the slowest career killer.
To everyone like you (and like me, I’m from Bihar, studied in a village school (Hindi medium) and in the end became a medical doctor, the best way to improve English is to use some product which will motivate the learner to carry on with studies. One classic example is Espoir Technologies’ “Smarten Your English through…” series. It is based on the modern concept called “Passion-based learning”. If you are passionate about cricket you will love the product “Smarten Your English through Cricket”. If you are passionate about movies, you will definitely get attracted towards this program. The surpising element is that high school English to IELTS / GRE / GMAT level English is explained with reference to 1300 Hollywood movies! Visit their website, it is interesting.
I think, if such products are translated into Hindi and other languages, Indians will rule the world!

hi how are you i am zaid al kahttab from iraq i would like to learn english .
so if you can help me pleas tell me how and iam ready to treavle to india to od that .

thank you very much

zaid
16\8\2009

Enlish language

Most of the English language learners think that they can learn English very well through grammar. Undoubtedly, grammar is an essential part in learning English as a second language but it can’t solve all the language problems. People aspire to become successful speakers of English by focusing on speaking skills alone. However, this is a wrong idea. Learning any language is to acquire proficiency in that language. Proficiency means being able to read, write, speak and listen to the language. Here comes the concept called language skills. The four basic language skills are Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. Grammar comes under Writing, while Vocabulary comes under Reading. So, an integrated learning of all these skills is necessary to acquire proficiency in language. Most of the commercial institutes try to make money from people as many people are ignorant of these facts.
Some helpful self-learning tips are:
1. Everyday listen to English news for an hour(don’t watch programmes like movies etc as they focus mainly on the visuals and we will be able to understand even without understanding the language) .
2. Read any article in the English news paper every day.
3. Listening and Reading are the two skills which help speaking and writing.
4. Try to communicate with people only in English everyday at least for a few minutes. ( seek opportunities to speak in English)
5. Try to use the language you listen and read when you speak and write.

Friends these are only a few ideas, but there are many and within this short span I am not able to express all the ideas. Hope these might help people when they try to endeavour to learn English language.
I saw many professors in English who came from regional medium(not from English medium in primary education). So, don’t lose hope, keep trying and being innovative and English will be you slave in no time.

I think what you stated may not be totally correct. It’s true you din’t have communicative skills at primary level not to have perfection at a later stage.

But one thing you need to know that the first language people or the natives can not train the ESL people speak English otherwise by this time the world must have been English World. The soulution to the porblem for ESL is with the Mondrus Speaking Courses. The unlettered could speak English from the first day in Mondrus Training.